Introduction:
BHP Billiton is world’s largest diversified natural resources company. The company was created by the merger of two companies, BHP Ltd (An Australian mining company) and Billiton PLC (An UK based Company). BHP Billiton has created long time share holder value through the discovery, acquisition and development of natural resources. In the last few years, BHP Billiton has faced some governance challenges in conducting their business around the world. For overcoming those challenges several strategic drivers has been taken by BHP Billiton. This report mainly focused on external and internal environment, strength and weakness, Governance challenges and strategic drivers of BHP Billiton.

Overview of BHP Billiton:
BHP Billiton is a Dual Listed Company (DLC) comprising BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc. BHP Billiton was created through the DLC merger of BHP Limited (now BHP Billiton Limited) and Billiton Plc (now BHP Billiton Plc), which was concluded on 29 June 2001. BHP Billiton is a leading global resources company. The purpose is to create long-term shareholder value through the discovery, acquisition, development and marketing of natural resources. BHP Billiton are among the world’s largest producers of major commodities, including aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore, manganese, nickel, silver and uranium, and have substantial interests in oil and gas.
The headquarters of BHP Billiton Limited, and the global headquarters of the combined BHP Billiton Group, are located in Melbourne, Australia. BHP Billiton Plc is located in London, United Kingdom. Both…...

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...of which accounting technique should to be integrated into BHP Billiton’s contemporary management accounting system. Through in depth research this technique has been identified as the environmental management accounting technique.
This result was achieved through the research of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis and the identification of the critical success factors. A balanced score card was then created using the information gathered to be used in identifying the most relevant technique.
EMA was the technique decided upon as compared to the other techniques as it is the most relevant to BHP Billiton as their industry deals day to day with the environment and society. It will create awareness for the harm that is being done to the environment and will encourage them to create the minimum damage to the earth. It will also assess any repercussions of their actions that may affect society and bring harm to people.
By integrating the EMA technique, it will help the organisation to collect the most relevant information to their situation and will assist in the planning, controlling and decision making within that organisation. This will improve the organisations strategy in which to help preserve the environment and also affect their financial state positively.
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...Situation Analysis
Problem statement:
How should BHP find itsorientationof social responsibilityand in the whole society what kind of social responsibility should it take?
Frame of reference：
This problem should be analysis onsocial responsibility levels. What kind of responsibility should undertake by the Mineraland resources enterprisein the society, and what kind of responsibilityshould be taken by stakeholders.
Issues
Internal
BHP as a world's largest mineral enterprisehas 35,000 employees and distribute in 26 countries. In these 26 different countries, BHP needs to undertakedifferentsocial responsibility, but generally speaking there are 4 points.
1. The economic responsibility:Economic responsibilities include the responsibility to shareholders and creditors. Shareholder and creditor of the enterprise arean important class of stakeholders,whether the enterprise implement the social responsibility is related to enterprise's shareholders and creditors anticipated targets are realized.After BHP acquired the Tintaya Copper Mine, the Tintaya Copper Mine has a huge economic benefit, in 2005 won the 389 million revenues, net profit 196 million.
2. The responsibilityto the client: The customersare the enterprise’ products recipients and users, are also the important enterprise stakeholders.Whether enterprise profit and value can be realized, it has a large extent to depend on the customer's choice.BHP as mineral enterprise, which needs to service customers......

...Accessed 27/12/11). We, BHP Billiton, as a global company realise that we need to give back to the society. Hence, we have put our focus on to the first and the seventh principles from the ten principles of UN Global Compact. The first principle focuses on the humanity rights, it stated, “businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights” (Global Compact Principle One, Accessed 27/12/11). And the seventh principle encourages businesses to support a “precautionary approach to environmental challenges” (Global Compact Principle Nine, Accessed 27/12/11). Our sustainable reports available through our website. It can be checked that we have been doing a sustainably
I, as the Director of Communication of BHP Billiton, recommend the company to:
1. Protect the human rights in South Africa, both villagers around the mining area and employees,
2. Reduce the mining waste in the mining area because it may caused health and environment problem in the area
In order to protect human rights, our program for the society is “Window of Opportunity”. This program focuses in helping and improving the health of women and children in South Africa and Mozambique and our company has provided $25 million for this program (BHP Billiton News, 2011). As a mining company working in the area, we have to protect the people of South Africa.
More than a decade ago, BHP faced an environmental problem in Ok Tedi, Papua New Guinea. BHP has dumped millions......

...BHP Billiton is known as the world's largest diversified natural resources company.As one of world’s largest producers of major commodities, including aluminium, copper, energy coal, iron ore, manganese, metallurgical coal, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and uranium along with substantial interests in oil and gas. BHP Billiton's objective is to create long-term shareholder value through the discovery,acquisition,development and marketing of natural resources.As a global organization,it has more than 100000 employees and contractors across the 25 nations.BHP Billiton Summary Review for 2011 in the year ended 30th June 2011 showed the financial results increased compared to past 5 years that the total return to shareholders was US$15.1 billion,underlying EBIT was US$32.0 billion,attributable profit(excluding exceptional items) was US$21.7 billion respectively.Moreover,BHP Billiton made US$195.5 million of Community Contribution which contributed to the company's aim that to maximise shareholders' wealth.
The community contribution BHP Billiton made can be considered as a part of the company's social responsibility and the sustainability for the society community.Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model.The goal of corporate social responsibility is to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities,...

...Performance Measurement & Control |
BHP Billiton & PotashCorp: Chinese distribution |
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Contents
Executive Summary 3
Introduction 4
Transfer Pricing 4
Transfer Pricing: Cost rates, dual rates & market prices 7
PotashCorp Transfer Pricing policy 9
Performance Management issues 12
Conclusions 14
References 15
Appendix 16
Executive Summary
In the constantly improving transfer pricing laws of China and given the Chinese fertilizer market’s future potential, it is worth to enter the market with a BHP Billiton’s division established there. The planned imports from PotashCorp provide the possibility for the use of transfer pricing to improve tax efficiency and thus the benefit of the whole organization. If performance measurement tools are used, this may underestimate the performance of the division using most of the methods such as market price and dual cost. The cost plus method turns out to be more on the division’s side but as the Chinese prices are lower than that of the world, the conditions appear to be supporting the method as beneficial to the company as a whole while the division is able to generate revenues for company at a low tax.
Performance measurement tools seem to be less beneficial for large divisions based organization, where differences in dynamics render the largely homogeneous performance measurement indicators unable to serve the intended purpose.......

...multinational company one of the biggest producer os natural recourses which operates in mining, gas, metal, steel, and oil sectors. The company was formed in 2001 by merging BHP Limited and BHP Billiton PLC,which is still in existence as separate companies but operated my single management team.The company operates is activities in 100 location within 25 countries and among them 40% of them are established in Australian region.The company was highly profitable which runs with integrity wherever it goes or runs.company clearly gave more focus on longterm share holder with discovery,development and marketing of natural resources.For to achieve this targets they lightened on 3 things(1)building and managing the company's assets and services.(2) setting up standard norms where all workers are devoted to there responsibility.and lastly(3) winning the trust of there shareholder,stakeholder workers by regular communication..(Robbins,s,DeCenzo,d.coulter,M & woods,M 2014,Management the Essentials, Pearson Australia,Sydney,pp.19.)
Key issues of the company:
Organizational Design: BHP says “Our Operating Model has been designed to deliver a simple and scalable organisation, providing a competitive advantage through defining how we work, how we are organised and how we measure performance”( The BHP Billiton Way What we do and how we do it,April 2012).The organization is designed with transparency with clear chain of responsibility of group of employee,so that employee......

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BHP
Billiton
Sustainability
Report
Case
Executive summary This short paper discusses relevant stakeholders that the multinational conglomerate company BHP Billiton encloses in their 2013 Sustainability Report. The components that are briefly touched upon is related to the various stakeholder influences, report and not reported costs (referring to the triple bottom line), but the majority of the paper primarily focuses on the environmental and social factors that BHP Billiton discloses in relation to their sustainability program, because the indicators seem to have the biggest impact on the outward-looking legitimacy of the company. We found that NGOs, local communities and unions highly affect how BHP chooses to report their operations, as these organizations/interest groups have a very close relationship to the firm; both negatively and positively. Furthermore, the paper tries to account for costs not included in BHP’s sustainability report, and it appear that some of these are cost-reporting on corruption, specific environmental issues, anticompetitive behaviour, and transportation. The paper do recognize that BHP is in fact a very active proponent of sustainability reporting, but on the other hand do question to what extent the reporting actually reflect the company’s inner workings, as BHP has been publicly criticised for this before. Question A: Influence of all possible stakeholders of BHP Billiton in terms of......

...BHP BILLITON
Petroleum Sector
BHP Billiton is one of Australia’s greatest corporate success stories; having grown from humble beginnings in Melbourne, BHP is now a multinational commodities powerhouse and claims to be the world’s largest national resources company. (Annual Report, 2009 pp. B)
The BHP Billiton Petroleum sector has been the focus of big BHP investment dollars of late as the company looks to expand their operations. BHP-B Petroleum produced over 376,000 barrels of oil per day in 2009 and has maintained an impressive 9% annual growth rate since 2007. (Petroleum Annual Review, 2009 pp 5)
BHP Petroleum operates in many countries across the world and is currently undertaking oil and gas projects in Australia, The Gulf of Mexico, Algeria, the UK, Pakistan and Trinidad and Tobago with the intention to expand into Malaysia, the Fawklands and Canada in the near future. (PAR, 2009 pp 5)
The market for petroleum and indeed the mining industry as a whole was unsure what effect the global financial crisis would have and what action affected parties would take during the period. Regardless of the changes, such a large and important company as BHP would have to study the potential changes and start, if necessary, reformatting their financial planning/strategies and other control processes. These would have to be looked at on a whole organisational level; ranging from the BHP hierarchy all the way down to the smaller subsidiaries in order to accurately gauge the......

...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report aim’s to examine the annual reports of Australia’s two largest mining companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto and analyse their cash flow statements. The analysis requires evaluating the cash flow performance of these companies during the global financial crisis 2007- 2009.The global financial crises were originated in US because of the bloom/bubble in the housing prices. During global financial crisis many financial institutions failed to recoup their money from lenders and finally ended up declaring bankruptcy.
The purpose of the cash flow statements is to provide information about the changes to an entity’s cash and cash equivalents over certain period of time. The cash flow from operating activities of the both companies shows both positive and negative signs as the companies were going through recession. Whereas both companies used external and equity source financing and thus made an efficient cost effective decisions from which BHP Billiton benefited the most.
Finally it’s concluded that the both companies were successful in overcoming global financial crisis and alternative strategies affecting the profitability of the companies were presented.
Introduction
Last three years has faced the worst global financial crisis after the great depression of 1929-1933. The origin of global financial crisis was mainly in US starting from mid 2000’s and taking the whole world into account by the end of 2007. The main reason of the crisis...

...looking to more sustainable products or services in order to keep their company running long into the future.
BHP Billiton has taken one such initiative, as one of the largest mining companies, it understands the importance of the environment to big business, both social, environmental and economical, therefore has been producing readied sustainability reports for the past 3 years.
Sustainability strategy
BHPs sustainability strategy is incorporative of how they can match their capabilities to accomplish its objectives but without compromising their or futures generations ability to use their opportunities to achieve their goals in the marketplace. They have done this through four main foundations in which it is trying to improve sustainability; they include safety, healthcare, environmental effects and lastly the community at large.
Safety is an important factor for BHP as it is a large mining company many of the jobs include some level of risk. There official motto for safety is “we do not compromise our safety values”. They planned to have Zero fatalities and a reduction in recordable injuries through identifying the effective risk controls, and eliminating the root of these injuries, as seen in this table below.
Healthcare is a contributing factor to BHPs successes as a healthy workplace is more efficient then an unhealthy one, this is because BHP “seeks ways to improve the health of our workforce and the community”. They have planned to assess the potential......

...Group Assignment: BHP BILLITON
International Business Theory & Practice (MGF 5966)
Lecturer/Tutor
Mr. Sharif Rasel
Name & ID
Junaidul Haque – 263 512 50
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Girish Balar – 274 718 53
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Due Date – Week 11
Introduction
BHP Billiton, which is Broken Hill Proprietary Billiton, is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining and petroleum company. BHP started its operation in Melbourne in 1885 which is one of Australia’s largest and oldest companies, and it focused on development, discovery, production, and marketing of natural resources. In value-added flat steel products, BHP was also a market leader. In 1860, Billiton was established in The Hague, Netherlands. Billiton developed a growing and substantial copper portfolio. It was also a global leader in the metals and mining sector, and a major producer of aluminum and alumina, steaming coal, nickel, and titanium, chrome and manganese ores and alloys. BHP Ltd of Australia and Billion Plc of UK established merger in 2001, and the result was the dual listed company (DLC). BHP Billion becomes one of the world’s largest mining and Petroleum Company. It expands its business in twenty countries, and its major commodities are iron ore, metallurgical coal, energy coal, conventional and unconventional oil and gas, copper, aluminum, manganese, uranium, nickel, and silver. This essay will deeply analysis the effects of BHP Billiton’s sustainability......